Silver Lake – Another phase of the disappearance and reported drowning of Dr. Marshall J. Thompson, of Baltimore, at this place last summer, developed last week. An adjuster for an insurance company in which Dr. Marshall was insured for $10,000 went to investigate the circumstance surrounding the case. Marshall’s body was never found. As he was an expert swimmer and when he called for help was about an eighth of a mile from shore and near shallow water, it is believed that he had a purpose in making it appear that he was dead. His body was sought for weeks by parties with grappling hooks, but all efforts to find it were fruitless. Reports that he was seen in California and Canada could not be proved. The insurance company believes his family is conscientious in their belief that he was drowned. His mother is the beneficiary of the insurance and the money was to have been used to send a younger brother through medical college.

Brooklyn – Miss Roberts, Home Economics teacher in our high school, will start a class for the women of the township who are interested. Twelve women met with Miss Roberts and they decided to have another class in sewing and basketry.

Forest Lake – Mrs. Fred Booth is spending several weeks at Mount Clemens, Mich., where she is taking mineral baths for rheumatism, from which she has suffered constantly for the past five months. She writes that she is gaining steadily.

Montrose – Hon. Henry J. Rose has one of the original stock certificates of the Milford and Owego Turnpike, made out in 1818 to Stephen Wilson. It was No. 774 and signed by Robert H. Rose, President, and Putnam Catlin, Treasurer. Mr. Rose was the grandfather of the present possessor of the relic. On the back it was endorsed to transfer from Stephen Wilson to Mason Wilson, in 1842. [Putnam Catlin was the father of George Catlin, famous for his paintings of western Indians.]

Flynn – S. J. Gillin is having running water piped to his house.

Dimock – The annual meeting of the Community Workers will be held Dec. 4th, at the Community church, at which time officers will be elected. This is a growing organization of seventy-one members, with promise of more to be added. The husbands of the members will be welcome to attend, as will all who are interested in the society.

Susquehanna – Mrs. Helen Hall, widow of R. H. Hall, died at her home on Nov. 18. Mrs. Hall was long one of the leading milliners of the town. The millinery store she operated, until her death, was previously founded by her mother, the two women having conducted it for a period of over fifty years. Two sons, Frank D., of Susquehanna and William, of Rochester, and one daughter, Mrs. Waller Wencke, of Rochester, survive. ALSO J. D. Furman, a native of Dimock, who is a member of Joel Barnes’ traveling carpenter crew on the Erie railroad, with headquarters in Susquehanna, had fourteen relatives who served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Oakland – Winter came to this locality last Sunday night. After a rain in the afternoon, a sudden drop in temperature took place and during the night a blizzard set in, with high wind and whirling snow, the ground being white on Monday morning.

Forest City – The construction company building the new theatre had a pile of sand in front of the proposed structure. Saturday evening a motorist drove on top of the sand. He soon took his bearing, reversed, and got off the sand bank with safety. ALSO From the first official scoring averages of the Penn State Basketball league, we learn that Joseph Morosky, star forward of the Forest City team, is topping all his rivals. In five games he registered 18 field goals and 15 foul goals for a total of 51 points. Joe always plays to win.

Brooklyn – The Ladies’ Musical Club was pleasantly entertained by Mrs. Gere and Mrs. Bedell at the latter’s home. A sketch of Handel was given by Mrs. Carey, and his march, “See the Conquering Hero Comes,” was rendered as a piano duet by Mrs. Smith and Miss Roberts. Mrs. Young gave two pleasant readings. Mrs. Hardy gave a brief sketch of Beethoven and Mrs. Terry, Mrs. Capron and Mrs. Palmer played his “Rondo Capriccio” as a six-hand. Delicious refreshments were served.

Uniondale – G. E. Douglas observed his 65thbirthday and at the same time disposed of his interest in the firm of Douglas & Yale, the junior member, O. H. Yale, taking over the business. In connection with their manufacturing and lumber trade, purchased in 1910, they have built up a large automobile trade. Their motto has been “Courtesy to all.”

Thompson – Charles E. Leach has opened his blacksmith shop again and will work there part of the time.

News Briefs: The death of Mrs. Warren G. Harding is the first instance in American history in which a president and his wife passed away within the period of a four-year administration. Mrs. Harding was a representative type of the finest American womanhood and the nation mourns her death. ALSO Three local cases of hiccoughs in which A. L. Titman and Harry M. Melhuish, of Montrose, and John H. Waterhouse, of Franklin, were the victims, responded to treatment from Dr. Preston the latter part of the week. Each of the men had suffered from the malady for a number of days. The epidemic occurs every few years, but this year it seems to be more widespread. ALSO The state secretary of highways has started a campaign urging all autoists to keep on their own side of the road while driving. Owing to the increase in density of motorcars, this ruling is steadily becoming more imperative. The driver who keeps his car on the right side of the road is in for less danger than the one who “hogs the road” or runs his car on the wrong side. If an accident happens to a driver when he is on the wrong side he might just as well admit himself guilty, as he can convince no one that he was in the right.

200 Years Ago from the Susquehanna County Republican, Nov. 26, 1824.

MARRIED – At Water Ville (N. Y.) on the 6th of October, by the Rev. Mr. Forrest, Mr. Daniel Bailey, of this borough [Montrose], to Miss Laura Baldwin, of the former place.

DIED – In Harford, on Monday the 22nd inst., Mr. Laban Capron, at an advanced age.

NOTICE: All persons indebted to the Estate of EBENEZER WHITNEY, late of Hop Bottom, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and all persons having demands against said Estate are requested to present the same, properly attested for settlement, to SARAH WHITNEY, Exec’x. ORANGE WHITNEY, Exe’r. Hop Bottom, Nov. 8, 1824.